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Sheryl L. Heron, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.E.P.
Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs
Steiner Building, Suite 313, Grady Memorial Hospital
404-616-0714, FAX 404-616-0191
E-Mail:
sheron@emory.edu
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Dr. Sheryl Heron is an Associate Professor and Associate Residency Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She is a board-certified emergency medicine physician in practice at Grady Memorial, Emory, and Crawford Long hospitals. She has recently been appointed by Emory University School of Medicine as Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs on the Grady Campus.
She is a graduate of Howard University College of Medicine and completed her emergency medicine residency training at Martin Luther King Jr./Charles Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles. Her primary research interest is in the prevention of violence against women. She was a member of the Emory University School of Medicine's Committee on the Status of Women in Medicine and the Institute of Medicine's Commission on Behavioral and Social Science’s Committee on Training Needs of Health Professionals to Respond to Family Violence. This Committee resulted in a report entitled, “Confronting Chronic Neglect: the Education and Training of Health Professionals on Family Violence.
She was a member of the Georgia Commission on Family Violence Medical Protocols Committee and was subsequently appointed in 2002 by the Governor to serve on the statewide Georgia Commission on Family Violence. She is a current Board member for the Women’s Resource Center to End Domestic Violence, a member of the Dekalb County Task Force on Domestic Violence, a graduate of Leadership Atlanta Class of 2002, and was featured in Georgia Trend Magazine’s October 2002 issue as “40 under 40” rising stars in Georgia. Dr. Heron was the 2003 recipient of the Hearts with Hope Award by the Partnership against Domestic Violence (PADV). In 2005, she was appointed co-Ambassador to Jamaica for the American College of Emergency Medicine Physicians and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor medical society as an alumni member from Howard University College of Medicine. In addition, she is the recipient of the 2005 National Medical Association Council on the Concerns of Women Physicians Woman in Medicine Award. She is currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, is the Immediate Past Chair for the Emergency Medicine Section of the National Medical Association as well as Co-Chair for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s Cultural Competency Curriculum Task Force.
Dr. Heron has lectured extensively on the local, state and national level on the medical response to Intimate Partner Violence and has had several publications on Intimate Partner Violence.
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